08/14/2013

For ‘Action August’ Little Obamanists harangue ‘Climate Deniers’

Forget
the lazy days of summer. The cadre serving
under the banner of Organizing for America have declared this month “Action
August,” and the marching orders were issued for the Little Obamanists to stage
rallies and blizzard their neighborhoods with flyers and postcards about Global
Warming.

Think
of it as Midnight Basketball for geeks.

In
case you missed it, after what is still slated to have been his last election
to the White House, President Barack Obama changed the name of his political
wing from Obama for America to Organizing for America.

The
move keeps the databases of polls and voting patterns,
email addresses and contributors actively
engaged in the president’s agenda. It also keeps thousands of nerds, who are
not bright enough to score jobs with
Facebook or Google off the streets.

Key
to Action August is the effort to shame members of Congress who oppose the
president’s environmental agenda, but also to stick them with the label:
“Climate Denier.”

When
someone asked to see the president’s birth certificate, they were called
“Birthers,” and it was kind of funny—like the way you would talk about UFOs or
meeting Elvis at a rest stop.

Calling
anyone who questions the how’s and why’s of the earth’s fever a denier
immediately associates someone with the more common phrase: “Holocaust Denier.”
This is not an accident. The liberals are not interested in debate. They are
interested in marginalizing any critics and getting their way.

Obama
himself said he wants to engage in a conversation about ways to improve the
environment, but he will not deal with anyone from the “Flat Earth Society.”
Who are they? They are anyone who disagrees with the president.

The
OFA is now ordering its followers to call out and harass disagreeing
politicians on its enemies list. They are told to flyer neighborhoods, disrupt
town meetings and cyberstalk as part of Action August’s push for the
president’s job-killing environmental agenda.

The
targets of the OFA cadre this August are the 101 congressmen and 24 senators,
who have dared to ask questions about the earth’s fever. Included among the
congressmen is Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.), Rep. Stephen E. Stockman (R.-Texas)
and Rep. Stephen J. Scalise (R.-La.).

After
checking the list three or four times, I am certain Speaker John A. Boehner
(R.-Ohio) is not on the list, which puts him with the president, again.

There
is no point looking for the GOP Whip Rep. Kevin O. McCarthy (R.-Calif.) at all.
McCarthy pals around with Tesla mogul Elon Musk and takes big checks from solar panel ranch companies. The good news is that
having McCarthy does not help anyone win a vote in the
House.

The
OFA cleared two of the Three Amigos, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R.-S.C.) and Sen.
John S. McCain III (R.-Ariz.) as environmentally correct, but their third wheel Sen. Kelly A. Ayotte (R.-N.H.) makes the
enemy list. Her offending quote is: “There is scientific evidence that
demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don’t think
the evidence is conclusive.”

Yikes.
That is what it takes to be called a Climate Denier?

This
standard does not seem to be welcoming of discussion.

When
Congress and Obama return to Washington in September, we will see if the OFA
coercion worked or not. It has been more than four years since Paul Krugman
wrote in The New York Times about the
economy’s green shoots of recovery and glimmers of hope.

As
more and more Americans are asking about when their own recovery takes place.

The
crazy part is that, while the Democrats say they want action on jobs and the
economy, all we really need is for the government to get out of the way. If the
Keystone XL pipeline was started on time, it would be nearing completion now
and 20,000 construction workers would have had two years’ worth of paychecks already. If the EPA and Interior
Department ceased fire on their war on coal, whatever is left of our industrial
base would be enjoying the cheap power that is the envy of competitors.

If
wind, solar and batteries are the way, let them prove it the way Henry Ford
beat out the wood-burning Stanley Steamer cars more than 100 years ago.

Well,
that will just have to wait at least until after Action August passes to the
vault where they keep Summers of Recovery.

In
the meantime, let us hope that the OFA cadre and its enemies list are not the
new normal for political discourse.